Booming Alberta vulnerable to drought: water experts

Hmm, no mention of the water-depleting industry known as the tar sands.

How did the CBC miss that? The Edmonton Journal article is more in depth.


EDMONTON - If Alberta doesn't put the brakes on the oil industry and re-examine its population explosion, the Prairies will face a critical water shortage unprecedented in scope, says a renowned water ecologist at the University of Alberta.

"If we continue to act the way we're acting, there won't be any water in Saskatoon and Saskatchewan in some summers," said David Schindler, an environmental scientist whose paper on the impending water crisis on Canada's Prairies is published in this week's on-line version of the U.S. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"If we let the oil revenues continue with no thought to what we're going to be like here when the oilsands are gone, it will be like Newfoundland after the cod are gone," Schindler said.

"Most ecologists and most climate people will tell you it's almost certain to be disastrous. We need to pull out all the stops on conservation."

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=b6151f3d-9825-40d3-ad02-d4b811256562&k=94910

Read it the other day and it had a few lines about the water demands of the oil industry. Why CBC wouldn't mention that also is beyond me.